“Declaring war on China’s currency? Ha Ha”….

Last week was another challenging week for mainland Chinese shares, with the Shanghai Composite Index of mainland shares falling -6.14%, bringing the decline in January to -22.65%. The index is now down -47.01% from the bubble high reached in June 2015. Efforts by the…

Weekly Market Update: January 25th 2016

Market Recap After a difficult start to the week, most of the major equity indices ended the week in positive territory. As expected, ‘Super Mario’ Draghi came to the rescue for markets with reassuring comments that fuelled hope of more aggressive monetary policy from…

Greek crisis intensifies, the known unknown!

The Greek drama intensified last week causing markets to move erratically. The on-again, off-again deal between Greece and its creditors is fraying on investors’ nerves as the ending is becoming way too close to call. Early week gains on news that an agreement was…

Beggar-my-neighbour policies

There seems to be an increasing sense of uncertainty developing on how the US Federal Reserve will manage policy over the next six months. The narrative emerging is that the Fed have backed themselves into a corner on a rate hike, something that is…

Weekly Market Recap: 25th August 2014

Market Recap The majority of the major equity indices closed in positive territory last week and demand for government bonds saw yields relatively unchanged, with   the main central bankers keeping the party going last week. Germany’s DAX equity index was one of the standout…

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